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Dowd's Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Herstmonceux

Historical Forms

  • Dowdes 1559 SRS3,17

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Dowdes 1559 SRS 3, 17 , probably deriving from a former owner .